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Tadeusz Konwicki

There are no good or evil people. There is only a great, unfathomable mob trampling itself underfoot. The life-giving sources of the old morality have dried up and vanished in the sands of oblivion. There’s no other source to draw from, no place to refresh oneself. There is no example, no inspiration. It is night. A night of indifference, apathy, chaos.

apathy, chaos, morality, night, oblivion

Tadeusz Konwicki

Our contemporary poverty is as transparent as glass and as invisible as the air. Our poverty is kilometer-long lines, the constant elbowing, spiteful officials, trains late without reason, the water cut off by some disaster (…), the monotony of living without any hope whatsoever, the decaying historic cities, the provinces emptying the rivers poisoned. Our poverty is the grace of the totalitarian state by whose grace we live.

poverty, totalitarianism

Tadeusz Konwicki

I am free, anonymous man. My flights and falls occurred while I was wearing a magical cap of of invisibility, my successes and sins sailed on in invisible corvettes, and films and books flew off into the abyss in invisible strongboxes. I am free, anonymous.

anonymity, free

Tadeusz Konwicki

I am free. I am one of the few free people in this country of utterly transparent slavery. A slavery covered by a sloppy coat of contemporary varnish. I have fought a long and bloodless battle for this pitiable personal freedom. I fought for my freedom against the temptations, ambitions, and appetites witch drive everyone blindly on the slaughterhouse. To the so-called modern slaughterhouse for human dignity, honor, and for something else, too, which we forgot about a long time ago.

Tadeusz Konwicki

Dreams are debris from bad day. Dreams are poems by bad poets that never got written.

Tadeusz Konwicki

Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature.

life, literature

Tadeusz Konwicki

-I haven’t been writing for years. I lost faith. it’s not for me. Too many levels.-What levels?-All those levels of existence. us down here, and up there, high above us. the ceiling of the universe. I’ve chosen nothingness.

existence, faith, nothingness

Tadeusz Konwicki

The world can’t die. Many generations have thought the world was dying. But it was only their world which was dying.

Tadeusz Konwicki

Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature.

life, literature

Tadeusz Konwicki

The world can’t die. Many generations have thought the world was dying. But it was only their world which was dying.

Tadeusz Konwicki

-I haven’t been writing for years. I lost faith. it’s not for me. Too many levels.-What levels?-All those levels of existence. us down here, and up there, high above us. the ceiling of the universe. I’ve chosen nothingness.

existence, faith, nothingness